Nvidia-docker: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS support

Created on 21 Apr 2016 · 26Comments · Source: NVIDIA/nvidia-docker

Can we get it please? It is officially released already.

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jendap

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Sorry about the delay! I now have an answer for you: ubuntu 16.04 images will be available as soon as CUDA 8.0 RC is out, and it is due at the end of the month.

flx42 on 13 May 2016

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Do you mean for the images on the DockerHub?
Or for the nvidia-docker/nvidia-docker-plugin binaries?

flx42 on 21 Apr 2016

Both :-) But I hope the nvidia-docker binary works. The images on DockerHub would be nice. There are newer versions of all the packages. It would simplify a lot the images build on top of nvidia docker image.

jendap on 23 Apr 2016

Building and installing on 16.04 worked just fine for me.

git clone [email protected]:NVIDIA/nvidia-docker.git
cd nvidia-docker/
make
sudo PREFIX=/usr/local/bin make install
sudo nvidia-docker volume setup
nvidia-docker run --rm nvidia/cuda nvidia-smi

lukeyeager on 26 Apr 2016

Yes, that works. But there is no docker image with "FROM ubuntu:16.04" uploaded to some docker hub. There is only 14.04 - https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker/blob/master/ubuntu-14.04/cuda/7.5/runtime/Dockerfile#L1 and https://hub.docker.com/r/nvidia/cuda/

It is important as my understanding is that we can't build it due to some redistributions restrictions in nvidia license. However when you guys create and upload the image it should all be fine :-)

jendap on 26 Apr 2016

Sorry about the delay! I now have an answer for you: ubuntu 16.04 images will be available as soon as CUDA 8.0 RC is out, and it is due at the end of the month.

flx42 on 13 May 2016

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Is it coming? We would like to start building nighltly builds and next release of tensorflow with support for 16.04. But we need docker support for our build infrastructure.

(even if it would be just older cuda for now)

jendap on 25 May 2016

It should be coming today, unless something explodes unexpectedly :)

flx42 on 27 May 2016

Bring it in!

Will it have only 8.0RC or even older 7.5? There are 3 versions in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker/tree/master/ubuntu-14.04/cuda/

It would be great to have 7.5 (non RC) on 16.04. Today. It should make it to next tensorflow release ;-)

jendap on 27 May 2016

8.0 RC only, sorry.
I did a quick test and saw a small compiling problem with TF because CUDA 8.0 unified some data types. The problem was in this patch:
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/523055469c8a61425e3b8f104be67787c2933ccb

flx42 on 27 May 2016

Publish the container. We will start using it in ci_build and on ci.tensorflow.org. We will see the error and we can fix it ;)

jendap on 27 May 2016

Currently pushing, should soon land with a OS prefix for now: nvidia/cuda:8.0-cudnn5-devel-ubuntu16.04

flx42 on 28 May 2016

Please test :)

flx42 on 28 May 2016

Great! Thank you!

I will test it tonight.

jendap on 28 May 2016

@jendap: were you able to test the images? Does it work for you?
If yes, can I close this issue?

flx42 on 2 Jun 2016

Not yet. I had to firefight more important issues. I will look at it this weekend, build and upload tensorflow container build on top of this. But we can close this. The container seems to be fine. And if not we can always open new issue.

Thank you!

jendap on 3 Jun 2016

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I can't find the CUDA Docker images for Ubuntu 16 or any results of the tests...

Did you upload the new Docker images @flx42? Did your tests worked @jendap?

I really don't know if having a 16.04 host with 14.04 containers would work or not. I'm delaying upgrading to 16.04 waiting for this mainly, but I don't know where else should I check.